Yury Galyametdinov +2 more instructors

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Smart Materials: Microscale and Macroscale Approaches

Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

About this Course

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Smart materials represent a cutting-edge global trend both in fundamental science and emerging technologies. Smart materials science is a truly interdisciplinary area at the intersection of physics, chemistry, chemical engineering, mathematical simulations, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and etc. An online course in smart materials will be of obvious interest for everyone who is interested in modern materials science and emerging trends in engineering, biotechnology, and medicine.
A broad variety of materials are actually considered as smart ones: from shape memory alloys to polymer nanosystems. We expect that the Coursera audience will benefit from a compact and simple online course that integrates specific modern aspects and trends of fabrication, modification, characterization, and applications of smart materials.

With this course, we would like to introduce specific aspects of an exciting interdisciplinary area “Smart Materials” in a way it can be easily understood by a broad audience. We will focus on how remarkable properties of smart materials correlate with simple structural features at nanoscale and microscale, discuss various methods to characterize materials with smart properties. We will highlight inspiring trends in applications of smart materials. For a microscale approach, we offer the Lab on a Chip technology and tell a story on to use microfluidic chips for fabricating smart systems. For a macroscale approach, we introduce modern analytical methods that are used to characterize smart materials
We expect that this course will be interesting for a broad audience that is keen to learn more about how smart materials contribute to well-established and emerging technologies.

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Beginner Level

Approx. 17 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: English

What you will learn

Identify the properties of smart materials that can be valuable in a specific area of application.

Apply theoretical and experimental approaches to designing, fabricating, and tuning properties of selected solid state and soft matter materials.

Utilize the potential of lab on chip technologies for materials science applications.

Skills you will gain

Properties of smart materialsMicroscopy & spectroscopy methodsSoft matterShape memory materialsLab on a chip

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100% online

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Flexible deadlines

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Beginner Level

Approx. 17 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: English

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Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University has a long-standing and successful history over 100 years where a great deal of important discoveries and inventions have been made. It was founded in 1899.

SPbPU has recently become the "National Research University" – a recognized Russian and international leader in the field of engineering and economic education with a rich educational, scientific and innovation infrastructure. The University is a member of Academic Excellence program among Russian Universities “5-100-2020”. SPbPU is listed in the QS World University Rankings (471-480) and Times Higher Education (113th position among European universities). SPbPU is a leading university of Russia with over than 26 000 students and postgraduates, 4500 of them are foreign citizens from 115 countries. The University is carrying out education and research activities in the following areas: natural science, engineering, economics and humanities. SPbPU trains specialists in 49 Bachelor Degree programs and 200 Master Degree programs, including 20 international Master Degree programs taught in English, 90 PhD programs and Doctorate programs. The University is proud of its longstanding traditions of international cooperation with many foreign educational institutions, research organizations and industrial companies. Among the partners of the University are 293 universities and 90 partner companies from 68 countries.

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week

Week 1

3 hours to complete

Smart Materials: Key Concepts

The module focuses on the key concepts of smart materials. We discuss the definition of smart materials, perform an overview of materials with smart properties, and offer specific terminology that you can learn with the Quizlet platform.

3 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 32 min), 8 readings, 3 quizzes

5 videos

Welcome3m

What are smart materials8m

Overview of smart materials7m

How to use the lecture notes7m

Smart materials: specific terms4m

8 readings

Course development team1m

Description of the course2m

How to use the course content2m

Contacts1m

Useful links15m

Smart materials: lecture notes30m

Smart materials: learn new terminology20m

Module summary5m

3 practice exercises

Self-evaluation test 15m

Smart Materials: bried quiz15m

Background of smart materials: assessment30m

Week

Week 2

3 hours to complete

Behind Smart Properties

The module focuses on nanoscale and microscale features behind the properties of smart materials. You will see that the majority of smart properties root in the nanoscale organization of matter and supramolecular interactions.

3 hours to complete

5 videos (Total 38 min), 5 readings, 3 quizzes

5 videos

Smart properties: nanoscale7m

Smart properties: microscale8m

Solid state materials7m

Soft matter8m

Introduction to new terms5m

5 readings

From macro and nano: slides for the videos20m

Useful links10m

Smart materials: lecture notes30m

Smart materials: learn new terminology20m

Module summary

3 practice exercises

Smart properties: practice quiz15m

Solid state & soft matter overview10m

Behind smart properties: assessment30m

Week

Week 3

3 hours to complete

Smart Materials: Research Methods

This module introduces macroscale research methods that can be useful for characterization of smart materials. We subdivide research techniques into three main groups: microscopy, spectroscopy, and numerical methods. We also perform experiments with real smart materials.

3 hours to complete

8 videos (Total 65 min), 4 readings, 4 quizzes

8 videos

Overview of microscopy methods8m

Advanced microscopy methods for smart materials5m

Spectroscopy methods for characterization of smart materials. Part 19m

Spectroscopy methods for characterization of smart materials. Part 210m

Overview of numerical methods7m

Introduction to Matlab. Part 111m

Introduction to Matlab. Part 26m

Introduction to new terminology6m

4 readings

Lecture notes: spectroscopy methods30m

Lecture notes: microscopy methods20m

Research methods terminology glossary20m

Module summary5m

4 practice exercises

Self-evaluation quiz10m

Smart materials: research methods. Assessment30m

Week

Week 4

4 hours to complete

Lab on chip for smart materials

In this module, we focus on an exciting microscale approach to fabrication, modification, and characterization of smart materials, that is microfluidics. We will learn how to fabricate microfluidic chips, simulate microfluidic processes, and perform experiments with soft matter in confinement.

4 hours to complete

9 videos (Total 67 min), 5 readings, 5 quizzes

9 videos

Introduction to microfluidics9m

Integration of lab on chip and smart materials7m

Fabrication of microfluidic devices: helpful hints6m

Experimental microfluidic setup6m

Synthesis of nanoparticles in microfluidic chips7m

Nonequilibrium behavior and confinement5m

Making a model of a microfluidic process8m

Simulation of microfluidic interactions9m

Introduction to new terms6m

5 readings

Useful links15m

Soft matter & lab on a chip30m

Microfluidic devices: fabrication, operation, and simulation20m

Lab on chip: learn new terminology20m

Module summary5m

5 practice exercises

Microfluidics overview10m

Lab ob chip fabrication quiz10m

Self-evaluation test10m

Numerical simulation quiz10m

Background of smart materials assessment30m

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Smart Materials: Microscale and Macroscale Approaches

Smart Materials: Microscale and Macroscale Approaches